ENVS 4432 Assignment 6
Sophie Kent-Purcell
2025-11-1
Github user name: SophieKent-Purcell
A Summary of: Landscape connectivity for bobcat (Lynx rufus) and lynx (Lynx canadensis) in the Northeastern United States
Farrell, L. E., Levy, D. M., Donovan, T., Mickey, R., Howard, A., Vashon, J., Freeman, M., Royar, K., & Kilpatrick, C. W. (2018). Landscape connectivity for bobcat (Lynx rufus) and lynx (Lynx canadensis) in the Northeastern United States. PLoS ONE, 13(3), e0194243. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194243
Introduction
Habitat fragmentation has been increasing across the Northern United States due to human expansion. This is problematic for wildlife species such as bobcat (Lynx rufus) and lynx (Lynx canadensis), which require large amount of connected habitat for their seasonal shifts in habitat and long term gene flow within metapopulations. Creating conservation strategies to ensure species have adequate connected habitat is challenging because different species like bobcat and lynx have largely different habitat requirements and different spatial scale for these requirements.
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